Bug#756002: grub-efi-amd64: Changes EFI boot manager settings

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 01:47:05PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> I have both gummiboot and grub installed on my laptop. Whenever grub is updated,
> it sets itself as the default bootloader in the EFI variables. I do not want
> grub to be the default bootloader, it's only there as a fallback if I mess up
> gummiboot.
> 
> It should only do this on the initial install, it's counter productive to
> set the active boot entry on every upgrade.

Have you considered only installing grub-efi-amd64-bin?  The semantics
of the plain platform packages (as opposed to platform-bin) are meant to
be that they own the boot process.

(That said, that would mean you'd have to run "grub-install --no-nvram"
manually after each upgrade.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]